Deployment Guide
Table Of Contents
- Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies Deployment Guide
- Contents
- Introduction
- Solution Overview
- Solution Deployment
- Introduction to solution deployment
- Deployment prerequisites
- Predeployment configuration
- Operating system deployment
- Installing roles and features
- Verifying firmware and software compliance with the support matrix
- Updating out-of-box drivers
- Changing the hostname
- Configuring host networking
- Joining cluster nodes to an Active Directory domain
- Deploying and configuring a host cluster
- Best practices and recommendations
- Recommended next steps
- Deployment services
- References
- Appendix A: Persistent Memory for Windows Server HCI
1111 008906320000 INVDIMM device Healthy {Ok} B11 102005395 126 GB
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1121 008906320000 INVDIMM device Healthy {Ok} B12 102005395 126 GB
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121 008906320000 INVDIMM device Healthy {Ok} A12 102005395 126 GB
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21 008906320000 INVDIMM device Healthy {Ok} A9 102005395 126 GB
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2. Run Get-PmemUnusedRegion to verify that two unused Pmem regions are available, one region for each physical CPU:
PS C:\> Get-PmemUnusedRegion
RegionId TotalSizeInBytes DeviceId
-------- ---------------- --------
1 811748818944 {1, 111, 21, 101...}
3 811748818944 {1001, 1111, 1021, 1101...}
3. Run the Get-PmemUnusedRegion | New-PmemDisk script to create two Pmem disks, one for each Pmem region:
PS C:\> Get-PmemUnusedRegion | New-PmemDisk
Creating new persistent memory disk. This may take a few moments.
Creating new persistent memory disk. This may take a few moments.
4. Run the Get-PhysicalDisk | ?{$_.MediaType -eq "SCM"} script to verify that both Pmem disks are available as
physical disk devices:
PS C:\> Get-PmemDisk
DiskNumber Size HealthStatus AtomicityType CanBeRemoved
PhysicalDeviceIds
---------- ---- ------------ ------------- ------------
-----------------
11 756 GB Healthy None True {1, 111, 21, 101...}
12 756 GB Healthy None True {1001, 1111, 1021, 1101...}
When you run the Enable-ClusterS2D command to enable Storage Spaces Direct, the SCM logical devices are automatically
detected and used as cache for NVMe and SSD capacity devices.
Appendix A: Persistent Memory for Windows Server HCI
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